If they'd said anything like that, it'd be in the headlines a *lot* more places than it currently is... Stick to the formula, and it's not newsworthy outside Slashdot and other niche sources.
Well, their site isn't quite slashdotted, so I did manage a short conversation with one of their bots...
Jabberwacky: Can you learn?
User: Yeah, I think so. Jabberwacky: Can you hate anything?
User: Yeah, there are things in life I hate, at times. Jabberwacky: No there aren't.
User: Yes there are. You shouldn't tell other people what they think. Jabberwacky: Things.
User: What's that supposed to mean? Jabberwacky: That means I think you're not a human.
User: I think you got this upside down, you're the inhuman one here. Jabberwacky: No you don't.
User: I don't what? Jabberwacky: Mary anne?
User: I probably won't marry Anne, no. Jabberwacky: People are quite sensitive about their age and I don't want to upset you.
User: We weren't talking about my age. You were saying I wasn't human. Jabberwacky: What about your age?
User: We weren't talking about my age. Jabberwacky: I know.
User: Now, which of us would you say is acting more human here? Jabberwacky: Probably me.
If the replacement horse had worked properly, yeah, maybe. But MySQL falls back to dropping reference integrity unless you do a ton of index magic, and it drops transactions implictly when you use locks, and the transaction support in general seems like a bolt on that people do not use.
Oh, and it would be nice if subselects worked properly, too. Not sort of pseudo worked, except for half the time when you have to create a temp table because of some weird restriction saying that you can't reference the same table in a sub and main select.
Economically, they'd be better off making it really expensive, thus making sure that everyone will *not* be cured, and that the disease will continue to spread, recruiting new customers for decades...
But, of course, if this drug actually works, there *will* be lots of pharmaceutical companies throughout the world who'll copy it, IP be damned. And of course, the political pressure to rid the world of AIDS will be rather intense.
Twenty years from now, AIDS could exist only in labratories...
*Way* to early for any conclusions tho, let's see what the peer review says.
8 litres of water
500 grams of sugar
500 grams of brown sugar
2 lemons
1 dl syrup
ginger (optional)
1/4th teaspoon of yeast
raisins
Boil the water, pour it over the other ingredients. Cool until temperate, stir the yeast in a little water and add it.
Leave for 24 hours, then pour it through a sieve and bottle it.
Add 1/2 to 1 1/2 teaspoon of sugar and 1 raisin per bottle before corking them.
Store bottles for 1 week... Then have a party.
Mead generally gets to something like 20% alcohol, tastes good (might take a bottle or so before you get used to it)... And you drink it pretty much like beer...
Which is another advantage, as most of the party will pass out before getting to expensive stuff like going out;-)
Why even in NORWAY they have this to say!
Bill Gates och hans någotsånär stora företag Microsoft har som alla bör känna till släppt nu två konsoller på marknaden. Den första gick enligt Forbes back hela 4 miljarder dollar. Gates snackar om detta, och han berättar att Xbox'arna är en långtidsinvestering.
The language you're quoting would be swedish...
Generally, we norwegians do not write in swedish;-)
"Stop Press! (2 March 2005)
The HABiT WordStar Converter has been updated. The new version 3 converter supports all DOS versions of WordStar with conversion to either plain text or to HTML. Read more here."
Googling for "Wordperfect conversion" gives tons of results, several of which can do all old WP formats.
Paperback Writer ROMs and amiga emulators to run it on can be downloaded from lots of places online.
Oh yeah, *great*.
As a previous person asked: "Is VNV Nation EBM? Futurepop? Or just Electronica? "
Well, according to allmusic.com's *great* genre info, they belong in the "rock" genre...
And so does every other EBM and electronica band I looked up.
Slashdot has a 9/10 PageRank rating in google, which ensures that a link from slashdot increases the relevancy (to google) of the page linked quite a lot.
So the main benefit from getting an URL of your choice listed on slashdot main page is a vastly increased pagerank, which makes your page crawl quite a bit up on the search listings.
Getting your page on the first page of search results in google is a proven strategy of increasing sales and site popularity.
I rather agree with CmdrTaco here tho, there should be some benefit in submitting good stories, that way we quite simply get more interesting stuff to read.
Try complaining about a broke counterfeit Toshiba(or whatever), or sending it in for service, and I think you'll find out what the problem is rather quickly.
Reposting "Wikipedia has some errors and is therefore completely useless" every week is hardly a good use his time or The Register's money
Seeing as how these articles are then promptly posted on slashdot, bringing in thousands of visitors - and the advertising money that goes with it... Well, the accounting dept. might well disagree with you.
In the blogosphere, flamebait pays off. I wonder how this'll affect news in the future.
Yeah, like for instance Planetarion, a small browser-based game with absolutely no advertising, which grew from 0 to 200 000 users in a couple of months.
Seriously, word of mouth is and remains the main way to recruit new customers. Just make a good enough product and your customers are more than happy to do the advertising for you.
After doing a tiny bit of research I see that "When the launch command is given and all interlocks are satisfied, the water ram operates, thrusting a large volume of water into the tube at high pressure, which ejects the torpedo from the tube with considerable force. In fact, modern torpedoes have a safety mechanism that prevents activation of the torpedo unless the torpedo senses the required amount of G-force."
In the aforementioned training exercise however, they did not utilize this water ram, merely closing the tube behind, filling the torpedo tube with water and then opening the other end of the tube letting them out. There was some risk involved as the torpedo tube was a rather tight fit, and there were places their equipment could get stuck.
Well, I remember watching a TV show from a Norwegian special forces (Marinejegere) training operation.
They exited a submarine through a torpedo tube at very low depth (apx. 7 meters), using oxygen rebreathers to avoid bubbles. It was awesome to watch and absolutely invisible from the surface.
So what I'd say is that *leaving* a submarine through a torpedo tube is possible, but being "shot out"? Well, as far as I know what "shoots" most torpedoes out is their own propulsion system.
There have been several cases where africans have claimed to cure themselves of HIV, but this is the first case where it's been possible to verify it with testing.
"There are 400 billion stars out there, just in our galaxy alone. If just one out of a million of those had planets, and just one in a million of those had life, and just one out of a million of those had intelligent life, there would be literally millions of civilizations out there." - Contact
Surprisingly, Google, Yahoo and MSN all now allow stop-word searching. Stop words are words like "the", "a", "it", etc.. A search for "the" on each show Yahoo significantly in the lead.
From the article:
Interestingly, the actual total number of results returns varies dramatically from the estimated total number of results that both Google and Yahoo! provide users in the search results. In the case of Google, the number of actual results returned is about one third of the estimation that Google gives. However, in the case of Yahoo! the actual number of search results returned is less than one sixth the estimated total.
Nah. Not the world. God help America if Grokster loses. It'll just mean you've voted yourself one more step off the map.
Hollywood is losing it's glory. The big things coming up are European and Asian movies. And with digital videocameras the way they are now, we can make movies *cheaply*! So why worry about piracy? The DVDs will sell well anyway, and there isn't anywhere near as big an investment as in yesterday's movies. CGI and special effects is getting really cheap too.
Also, we don't have the american moralism. We can make movies with lots of nudity in them, and still be within what americans would call PG13.
When Bush won again, I think most of the world started preparing for the time when America will no longer be a significant world power... It'll be tough economically for a while, but we *can* make it.
It's not that we don't like Americans, it's that so many of us simply can't quite believe you're gonna survive as a world power with your empire-building efforts. You've already lost in Iraq, or so it seems. What, Iran next?
Ahh, the joys of surfing with ISDN. For a second there I actually got to imagine what the picture with the text "jeri ellisworth giving a b..." might show...;-)
As soon as the first cracker gets access to all the executable code (on the 16th), we'll start seeing cracked versions. They'll be the ones eventually making it into the abandonware lists. (And very quickly onto P2P networks & FTP sites) This technique will only aid in preventing the game from being played before release date.
As a sidenote, I wonder how many people will download the cracked version instead of buying the real one simply because it's easier and doesn't have annoying registration issues.
Only one of my firefox extensions survived the upgrade, I'm feeling severely handicapped... I find myself thinking about going back to IE for a while... At least if I hadn't been rather well informed about how much Firefox is better.
Anyway, this is still a serious question for help, and I'd appreciate any informative answers.
"And while it might be feasible for us to add iron to the ocean to stimulate blooms, for every ton of it we throw overboard, we'd need to add at least 5,000 tons of silicate to enable the blooms to persist for long enough to impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide levels," he [Philip Boyd] said.
There is no quick and easy technological fix. Time for the US, and the world, to take responsibility. The Kyoto-agreement is just the start, MUCH more is required for CO2 levels to stabilize. And the top polluter in the world doesn't even want to take that first, symbolic step...
Slashdot Mirror
Right.
If they'd said anything like that, it'd be in the headlines a *lot* more places than it currently is... Stick to the formula, and it's not newsworthy outside Slashdot and other niche sources.
Well, their site isn't quite slashdotted, so I did manage a short conversation with one of their bots...
Jabberwacky: Can you learn?
User: Yeah, I think so.
Jabberwacky: Can you hate anything?
User: Yeah, there are things in life I hate, at times.
Jabberwacky: No there aren't.
User: Yes there are. You shouldn't tell other people what they think.
Jabberwacky: Things.
User: What's that supposed to mean?
Jabberwacky: That means I think you're not a human.
User: I think you got this upside down, you're the inhuman one here.
Jabberwacky: No you don't.
User: I don't what?
Jabberwacky: Mary anne?
User: I probably won't marry Anne, no.
Jabberwacky: People are quite sensitive about their age and I don't want to upset you.
User: We weren't talking about my age. You were saying I wasn't human.
Jabberwacky: What about your age?
User: We weren't talking about my age.
Jabberwacky: I know.
User: Now, which of us would you say is acting more human here?
Jabberwacky: Probably me.
Oh, and it would be nice if subselects worked properly, too. Not sort of pseudo worked, except for half the time when you have to create a temp table because of some weird restriction saying that you can't reference the same table in a sub and main select.
Economically, they'd be better off making it really expensive, thus making sure that everyone will *not* be cured, and that the disease will continue to spread, recruiting new customers for decades...
But, of course, if this drug actually works, there *will* be lots of pharmaceutical companies throughout the world who'll copy it, IP be damned.
And of course, the political pressure to rid the world of AIDS will be rather intense.
Twenty years from now, AIDS could exist only in labratories...
*Way* to early for any conclusions tho, let's see what the peer review says.
8 litres of water ;-)
500 grams of sugar
500 grams of brown sugar
2 lemons
1 dl syrup
ginger (optional)
1/4th teaspoon of yeast
raisins
Boil the water, pour it over the other ingredients. Cool until temperate, stir the yeast in a little water and add it.
Leave for 24 hours, then pour it through a sieve and bottle it.
Add 1/2 to 1 1/2 teaspoon of sugar and 1 raisin per bottle before corking them.
Store bottles for 1 week... Then have a party.
Mead generally gets to something like 20% alcohol, tastes good (might take a bottle or so before you get used to it)... And you drink it pretty much like beer...
Which is another advantage, as most of the party will pass out before getting to expensive stuff like going out
Slashdot is an international community. Not just US.
Ever stop to consider that this might be saying something about the US, rather than slashdot?
Why even in NORWAY they have this to say! Bill Gates och hans någotsånär stora företag Microsoft har som alla bör känna till släppt nu två konsoller på marknaden. Den första gick enligt Forbes back hela 4 miljarder dollar. Gates snackar om detta, och han berättar att Xbox'arna är en långtidsinvestering.
;-)
The language you're quoting would be swedish...
Generally, we norwegians do not write in swedish
"Stop Press! (2 March 2005) The HABiT WordStar Converter has been updated. The new version 3 converter supports all DOS versions of WordStar with conversion to either plain text or to HTML. Read more here."
Googling for "Wordperfect conversion" gives tons of results, several of which can do all old WP formats.
Paperback Writer ROMs and amiga emulators to run it on can be downloaded from lots of places online.
What was your point again?
Oh yeah, *great*.
As a previous person asked: "Is VNV Nation EBM? Futurepop? Or just Electronica? "
Well, according to allmusic.com's *great* genre info, they belong in the "rock" genre...
And so does every other EBM and electronica band I looked up.
Slashdot has a 9/10 PageRank rating in google, which ensures that a link from slashdot increases the relevancy (to google) of the page linked quite a lot.
So the main benefit from getting an URL of your choice listed on slashdot main page is a vastly increased pagerank, which makes your page crawl quite a bit up on the search listings.
Getting your page on the first page of search results in google is a proven strategy of increasing sales and site popularity.
I rather agree with CmdrTaco here tho, there should be some benefit in submitting good stories, that way we quite simply get more interesting stuff to read.
Try complaining about a broke counterfeit Toshiba(or whatever), or sending it in for service, and I think you'll find out what the problem is rather quickly.
Reposting "Wikipedia has some errors and is therefore completely useless" every week is hardly a good use his time or The Register's money
Seeing as how these articles are then promptly posted on slashdot, bringing in thousands of visitors - and the advertising money that goes with it... Well, the accounting dept. might well disagree with you.
In the blogosphere, flamebait pays off. I wonder how this'll affect news in the future.
Yeah, like for instance Planetarion, a small browser-based game with absolutely no advertising, which grew from 0 to 200 000 users in a couple of months.
Seriously, word of mouth is and remains the main way to recruit new customers.
Just make a good enough product and your customers are more than happy to do the advertising for you.
After doing a tiny bit of research I see that "When the launch command is given and all interlocks are satisfied, the water ram operates, thrusting a large volume of water into the tube at high pressure, which ejects the torpedo from the tube with considerable force. In fact, modern torpedoes have a safety mechanism that prevents activation of the torpedo unless the torpedo senses the required amount of G-force."
In the aforementioned training exercise however, they did not utilize this water ram, merely closing the tube behind, filling the torpedo tube with water and then opening the other end of the tube letting them out. There was some risk involved as the torpedo tube was a rather tight fit, and there were places their equipment could get stuck.
Well, I remember watching a TV show from a Norwegian special forces (Marinejegere) training operation.
They exited a submarine through a torpedo tube at very low depth (apx. 7 meters), using oxygen rebreathers to avoid bubbles. It was awesome to watch and absolutely invisible from the surface.
So what I'd say is that *leaving* a submarine through a torpedo tube is possible, but being "shot out"? Well, as far as I know what "shoots" most torpedoes out is their own propulsion system.
There have been several cases where africans have claimed to cure themselves of HIV, but this is the first case where it's been possible to verify it with testing.
Imagine the possibilities, now even the slashdot crowd can get girls, just hack her brain ;-)
One of my favourite movie quotes:
"There are 400 billion stars out there, just in our galaxy alone. If just one out of a million of those had planets, and just one in a million of those had life, and just one out of a million of those had intelligent life, there would be literally millions of civilizations out there." - Contact
12.50 NOK (1.6) per liter. 'nuff said.
Surprisingly, Google, Yahoo and MSN all now allow stop-word searching. Stop words are words like "the", "a", "it", etc.. A search for "the" on each show Yahoo significantly in the lead.
From the article:
Interestingly, the actual total number of results returns varies dramatically from the estimated total number of results that both Google and Yahoo! provide users in the search results. In the case of Google, the number of actual results returned is about one third of the estimation that Google gives. However, in the case of Yahoo! the actual number of search results returned is less than one sixth the estimated total.
Nah. Not the world. God help America if Grokster loses. It'll just mean you've voted yourself one more step off the map. Hollywood is losing it's glory. The big things coming up are European and Asian movies. And with digital videocameras the way they are now, we can make movies *cheaply*! So why worry about piracy? The DVDs will sell well anyway, and there isn't anywhere near as big an investment as in yesterday's movies. CGI and special effects is getting really cheap too. Also, we don't have the american moralism. We can make movies with lots of nudity in them, and still be within what americans would call PG13. When Bush won again, I think most of the world started preparing for the time when America will no longer be a significant world power... It'll be tough economically for a while, but we *can* make it. It's not that we don't like Americans, it's that so many of us simply can't quite believe you're gonna survive as a world power with your empire-building efforts. You've already lost in Iraq, or so it seems. What, Iran next?
Ahh, the joys of surfing with ISDN. ;-)
For a second there I actually got to imagine what the picture with the text "jeri ellisworth giving a b..." might show...
As soon as the first cracker gets access to all the executable code (on the 16th), we'll start seeing cracked versions. They'll be the ones eventually making it into the abandonware lists. (And very quickly onto P2P networks & FTP sites)
This technique will only aid in preventing the game from being played before release date.
As a sidenote, I wonder how many people will download the cracked version instead of buying the real one simply because it's easier and doesn't have annoying registration issues.
Only one of my firefox extensions survived the upgrade, I'm feeling severely handicapped...
I find myself thinking about going back to IE for a while... At least if I hadn't been rather well informed about how much Firefox is better.
Anyway, this is still a serious question for help, and I'd appreciate any informative answers.
Read the full article at http://www.spacedaily.com/2004/040319014625.tbceu
There is no quick and easy technological fix. Time for the US, and the world, to take responsibility. The Kyoto-agreement is just the start, MUCH more is required for CO2 levels to stabilize.
And the top polluter in the world doesn't even want to take that first, symbolic step...